IBM's labs are home to 2,000 PhDs and 6 Nobel laureates (01 Jan 2004)
The IBM scientists who've worked with customers seem to find the experience invigorating, too. "For many of our researchers, there's nothing better than validating their ideas in the real world," says Peggy Kennelly, vice president of IBM's On Demand Innovation Services. Schieber knows that feeling firsthand. "You have such a sense of power when it only takes you a few minutes using math to solve a problem that a businessperson has been struggling with for years," he says.
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